REFILE-UPDATE 1-UBS CEO Ermotti's pay rises to $14.9 million

Reuters Staff

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ZURICH, March 9 (Reuters) - UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti received 14.2 million Swiss francs ($14.92 million) in total compensation for 2017, up from 13.7 million francs a year earlier, Switzerland’s biggest bank said on Friday.

The aggregate performance award pool for the group executive board rose 3.1 percent for 2017 to 74.2 million francs.

“This increase... compares with an increase of 16 percent in adjusted profit before tax and a 6 percent increase in the overall performance award pool of the firm,” it said in its annual compensation report.

The rise marks a return to growth after a 17 percent decline in staff bonuses in 2016 and a 5.2 percent drop in compensation for Ermotti.

The company’s annual report showed late additions to provisions, since UBS reported results in January, had pushed down 2017 operating profit before tax by 141 million francs and net profit attributable to shareholders by 112 million.